FDA Report on PCA Plant. Posted
by Tim at 01/28/09 06:37 PM
FDA just posted the inspection report on their website. It contains explosive information. On September 26, 2008 peanut paste turned up positive for S. typhimurium; PCA had the sample retested then shipped it out. There were 11 other instances where product tested positive for Salmonella (2 times was S. anatum, 9 times was simply Salmonella , was sent to another lab, came up negative and then shipped out.
Also no evidence that product lines were cleaned after a positive sample was found.
The plant had no data to show that their roasting temperature, belt speed, or volume were sufficient to act as a kill step.
There was lots of potential for environmental contamination--holes in the roof where water came in, production lines directly beneath leaky holes in roof, etc. water stains on walls, filthy surfaces, raw product and finished product side-by-side, etc.
This report is so strong, it makes you wonder how the plant could have survived the previous inspections.
Thanks to Michael Hansen for downloading this information from the report
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